A lawyer for Blake Lively is fighting back against a claim from Justin Baldoni‘s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, that a member of Lively’s legal team tried to extort Taylor Swift into releasing a statement of support for the “A Simple Favor” star.
According to Freedman’s letter, filed with the court and Judge Lewis J. Liman on Wednesday, “Michael Gottlieb of Willkie Farr, counsel for the Lively Defendants, contacted a Venable attorney who represents Ms. Swift and demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be…